The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-01
KEEP A SCRAP BOOK.

advise every boy and girl to keep a
scrap book. If you are ten, or fifteen, or
twenty years old, keep scrap book.
Let me tell you why and how.
| Hundreds of things you see that you
would like to keep; but if you lay them
away you will never be able to find them
when you want them. When I was q
boy did not have sense enough to keep
| scrap books began some, but did not
keep on long with them.
My memory was good, but can now
remember many things that l can't re-
member.
What that means is this: remember
reading a beautiful piece of poetry, of
which two or three lines [ can call up,
but the whole / can't recollect. In come
cases I do not know the name of the
writer.
have seen many fine pictures in mag
azines and papers that would now be
valuable and interesting. Some I cut
out, but they are lost. Charming stories,
wise remarks, proverbs, directions for
doing great many useful and curious
things, are also lost.
So much do I feel sure that have lost
that would give $50 apiece for the scrap
books of each and every year that nigh
have made, from the time was ten till I
began to preserve things, only few
years ago.
There is gentleman who has kept
scrap books since he was eight years old.
He is now forty, and has been arranging
them in volumes, with an index in the
back of each one. You would hardly
think that the earlier would be of much
use to him. But, they are. He often
amuses himself as he reads them; for he
sees how little he knew when he was
little; but also finds little that he still
thinks valuable. Besides, his children
are much interested to see what their
father has collected and pasted in books,
The older he grows the more useful the
books become. He can go to his books,
and in few minutes get information
about everything that has happened in
his whole life-tell you all about the
civil war, the Crimean war, the italian
war, the overthrow of Louis Napoleon
and many other things, just as they were
published in the papers at the time the
events happened.
His scrap books also contain many
funny things, which provoke smile and
often merry laugh, as he reads them to
his family in the long winter evenings
His children would rather hear him read
from his scrap books than from the new
est story.
II you have no scrap book, get one and
put in it whatever pleases you. If you
have one, and have not used it, take it up
again. L assure you that you will be
very glad of it atterward.
HOW TO KEEP SCRAP BOOK.
You can buy one very cheap. Some
require paste, and one, invented by Mark
Twain, and sold in the book stores, is
arranged like postage stamps. All you
need to do is to wet it and lay on what
you wish to save.
If you have the money, get one of this
kind. 1t is cleaner and less troublesome.
The others, however, will do well enough.
A bottle of mucilage is all you need.
Only you must be careful not to drop
any of the sticky stuff on the pages. or
they will sticktoyeshec; when you open
them the surface Of the paper will pull
off and deface the reading.
If you have no money to buy scrap
book, or do not live where they are sold,
one can be made by taking any old use
! less book, and cutting out two leaves out